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GCDS-9780872864788 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100039810 02 0872864782 03 9780872864788 15 9780872864788 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>The Speed of Dreams</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The</TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix>Speed of Dreams</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle>Selected Writings 2001-2007</Subtitle> 1 A01 Marcos, Subcomandante Insurgente Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos Subcomandante Marcos is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas, an indigenous insurgency movement based in Mexico. He first joined the indigenous guerrilla group that was to become the Zapatistas in the early 1980s. Marcos is author of several books translated into English, including Story of the Colors (Cinco Puntos), which won a Firecracker Alternative Book Award, and Our Word is Our Weapon (Seven Stories Press). For more info see: <a href="http://www.ezln.org.mx/" target="_blank">http://www.ezln.org.mx/</a> 2 A02 Pena-Vargas, Canek Canek Pena-Vargas Canek Pena-Vargas is a student of Latin American Studies and Education at the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, NYU. He is a member of Estacion Libre, a collective of people of color who work in solidarity with the zapatista movement, and Visual Resistance, a New York City based arts collective. He is also a member of the Regeneración child care collective. In 2005, Canek traveled to Chiapas to study Tzotzil and assist in research at autonomous clinics in the Caracol of Oventik. An aspiring educator, Canek currently works at an after-school program in East Harlem. 3 A02 Ruggiero, Greg Greg Ruggiero Since cofounding the Open Media Series in 1991,  Ruggiero has  published some of the most outspoken scholars, social justice advocates, and dissidents of our time, including  Noam Chomsky, Angela Y. Davis, Howard Zinn, Alice Walker, Allen Ginsberg, Arundhati Roy,  Ralph Nader, Barbara Olshansky, The Dalai Lama, Vladimir Chernousenko, Cindy Sheehan, Manning Marable, and Subcomandante Marcos. Ruggiero published the Open Media series independently for several years from Westfield, New Jersey with his friend Stuart Sahulka before bringing the imprint to Seven Stories Press in 1997. Ruggiero worked as senior editor with  Seven Stories Press from 1997 to 2005 during which time he published such critically acclaimed and bestselling titles as 9-11 by Noam Chomsky, Silencing Political Dissent by Nancy Chang, Israel/ Palestine by Tanya Reinhart, and Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis. In 1996, Ruggiero began working with "<a href="http://mediafilter.org/MFF/S38/S38.STR.html" target="_blank">Steal This Radio, 88.7FM</a>," an unlicensed FM radio station on New York City's Lower East Side where for two years he hosted a weekly show using the on-air name of "DJ Thomas Paine." Under a MacArthur grant received by the National Lawyers Guild in 1999, he took a three-month sabbatical from publishing to work as a national organizer for The Micropower Radio Coalition, an organization founded to end the government ban on low-power community radio. That organization's mission and purpose continues to this day through the brilliant efforts of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.prometheusradio.org/">Prometheus Radio Project</a>.Ruggiero travels often to Chiapas, Mexico. In 1999 he began working with Juana Ponce de Leon to research and edit the book, Our Word is Our Weapon. The New York Times reported that during a trip to Chiapas in January 2000, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/06/world/mexico-expels-2-us-supporters-of-zapatistas-who-visited-chiapas.html?pagewanted=1">Ruggiero was forced by the Mexican government to leave Mexico</a> due to alleged affiliation with the Zapatista communities.In November 1999, Ruggiero traveled to Seattle for the historic anti-WTO protests, and while there worked with friends on the first of what has since become a global network of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.indymedia.org/">Independent Media Centers.</a>Represented by the <a href="http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp" target="_blank">Center for Constitutional Rights</a>, in February 2002 Greg won a First Amendment victory in Federal District Court . The case, <a target="_blank" href="http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/200202/00-1100a.txt">Ruggiero vs the FCC</a> proved that the U.S. government's lifetime prohibition against individuals who had engaged in civil disobedience from applying for a low-power FM license was unconstitutional. The victory was later overturned by an <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/legal/justice/justiceArticle.asp?ObjID=sQkxBe4Qma&Content=86">en banc decision</a>, and the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected to hear the case.Ruggiero authored <a href="http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100337230" target="blank">Microradio and Democracy, Low Power to The People</a> and has co-edited several books, including The Speed of Dreams, Selected Writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos (with Canek Peña-Vargas, City Lights Books, 2007)  Critical Mass, Voices for a Nuclear Free Future (with Start Sahulka, Open Media,1996), The New American Crisis: Radical Analysis of the Problems Facing America Today (with Start Sahulka, New Press 1995),  Open Fire (with Stuart Sahulka, New Press 1993). Ruggiero graduated from Rutgers College in 1988, and spent several years hitchhiking around the US and abroad before settling into publishing. He currently lives and works from "nowhere Zen New Jersey." 01 eng 308 01 The literary and poetic genius of Latin America’s greatest living writer/rebel. Since the publication of Our Word is Our Weapon – which Publishers Weekly described “as strong as dignity and as subtle as love” – Mexico’s enigmatic Zapatista leader has written some of his most brilliant and complex works. From a retelling of indigenous myths and legends, to visions of the future of Mexico, from searing critiques of the U.S. war in Iraq, to clandestine radio broadcasts from the jungles of Chiapas, here is an amazing selection of writing that gives voice to the literary and poetic genius of Latin America's greatest living writer/rebel. Subcomandante Marcos is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas. 02 The literary and poetic genius of Latin America's greatest living writer/rebel. 08 "ABSURD! Thus the man known around the world as Subcomandante Marcos, soldier, revolutionary, poet, philosopher, and spokesman for the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN), describes the political situations that exist in the world today. It is absurd that he lives in a country that has produced the world's most wealthy individual but in which over 40 percent of the population lives in dire poverty. . . Marcos' book, The Speed of Dreams, is a collection of translated writings arranged in more or less chronological order by the editors. They include presentations that Marcos made at forums and during marches throughout Mexico and delightful philosophical musings that Marcos attributes to devils, children, and a hardshelled Lacandón beetle named Durito who rides a skateboard and calls the Sup 'used-underwear face.'" -Robert Joe Stout New Politics 08 "This volume collects writings by Mexican Zapatista insurgent Subcomandante Marcos made public following the publication of Our Word Is Our Weapon in 2001. Among the 40 writings collected are 'literary' allegorical, philosophical, and poetic texts, as well as shorter examples of historical or logistical communiqués that the editors feel 'reflect the poetics of praxis.'" 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